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Education

Students at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Dover said they were disappointed in a town hall meeting about gun violence. (WHYY/Zoe Read)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

‘We do not feel safe:’ Delaware students tell lawmakers at post-walkout town hall

Following the walkout, students at Caesar Rodney High School in Camden, Del. attended a town hall forum that was dominated by state lawmakers.

7 years ago

Ruth Simmons (The Philadelphia Tribune)
The Philadelphia Tribune
Gender
Higher Education
Race & Ethnicity

Ruth Simmons on the future of HBCUs

In 2012, after a distinguished career in higher education, Ruth J. Simmons retired and moved back to her home state. But after several years, Prairie View A&M came calling.

7 years ago

On April 20, 1999, unidentified young women head to a library near Columbine High School where students and faculty members were evacuated after two gunmen went on a shooting rampage in the school in the southwest Denver suburb of Littleton, Colorado.. Fifteen people, including the two shooters, died. (Kevin Higley/AP Photo)
NewsWorks Tonight
History
Philadelphia
Public Safety

Decades after Columbine, preventing school shootings still vexes security experts

A 1958 deadly fire at a Chicago school was the catalyst for life-saving fire drills. Experts say the 1999 Columbine shooting spurred school security changes at a slower pace.

7 years ago

Listen 4:48
Close to a hundred students and members of the Philadelphia Student Union held a six-minutes 'Die-in' protest on the steps of the School District's North Broad Street headquarters. (Bas Slabbers/for WHYY, file)
Philadelphia
Public Safety
Race & Ethnicity

Philly students on school safety walkout: What took you so long?

In Philadelphia, the kids have been on fire for years — and violence has been a constant theme.

7 years ago

Caesar Rodney School District's public information officer recently removed comments critical of the superintendent's opposition to the upcoming student walkout. The ACLU cried foul, and the district has relented. (Caesar Rodney School District)
Delaware
K-12
Public Safety

ACLU to school district: Stop censoring student Facebook criticisms over gun violence walkout

After Caesar Rodney Schools chief prohibited students and teachers from taking part in the Wednesday walkout over gun violence, the district deleted online complaints.

7 years ago

Members of the University of Pennsylvania's nurse-midwifery program's Class of 2017 are working to establish a scholarship fund for students of color. (Courtesy of Nicole Chaney)
Health Care
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity

Scholarship fund aims to make Philly midwife ranks more diverse

The vast majority — more than 90 percent — of American College of Nurse-Midwives members are white. Some recent grads of Penn’s nurse-midwifery program want to change that.

7 years ago

Science Leadership Academy student activists (from left) Tamir Harper, Ella Burrows, Horace Ryans, Kaamil Jones and Zoey Tweh. (
NewsWorks Tonight
Politics
Public Safety

Voices behind the walkout: Science Leadership Academy

Students weigh in on gun violence and the upcoming National School Walkout.

7 years ago

Listen 3:04
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Mike Chitwood (AP, file)
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Upper Darby police chief proposes arming teachers, but school board pushes back

Less than a month after Upper Darby's outspoken police superintendent proposed arming teachers, the local school board passed a resolution saying it won't back the idea.

7 years ago

Maria Ramirez, left, and Eunice Millán, both freshmen at Woodrow Wilson High School in Camden, New Jersey, are taking physics this year as part of a “Physics First” initiative to prepare more students for STEM careers. (Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report)
Higher Education
K-12
New Jersey

One reason students aren’t prepared for STEM careers? No physics in high school.

A shortage of physics teachers limits physics-taking, which limits the number of physics teachers

7 years ago

Wilmington University President LaVerne T. Harmon, the first black woman to head a Delaware college or university, had her formal inauguration Thursday. (Courtesy of Wilmington University)
Delaware
Higher Education

Wilmington University honors its barrier-breaking president

LaVerne Harmon’s elevation to the highest post at the nearly 50-year-old New Castle-based school was formalized Thursday during an inauguration ceremony at the Chase Center.

7 years ago

Listen 1:31
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tem Joe Scarnati, center, hopes to quash a school funding lawsuit brought by districts and advocates. (AP file photo)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12
Pennsylvania

GOP lawmakers seek to stop Pa. education funding lawsuit at preliminary hearing

The lawsuit challenging Pa.’s school-funding scheme continued its slow climb through the legal system with oral arguments before the Commonwealth Court in Philadelphia.

7 years ago

Capitol Building, Harrisburg. (Kevin McCorry/WHYY)
Keystone Crossroads
K-12

Pa. property tax opponents gear up for another fight in the Statehouse

A bipartisan group of state senators is plotting another attempt at legislation that has become something of a white whale in Pennsylvani ...

7 years ago

Gov. John Carney appeared before the Christina School District board in February and made his pitch for approval of the partnership. The Memorandum of Understanding to consolidate five schools passed 4 to 2 with one abstention. (Cris Barrish/WHYY)
Delaware
K-12
Kids

Christina board member Meredith Griffin defends school consolidation

In February, a divided Christina school board approved the framework of a partnership with the Carney administration to consolidate five high-poverty, low-performing schools.

7 years ago

women in engineering
Speak Easy
Gender
Higher Education

More girls in the engineering career pipeline makes the world a better place

We are nearing that tipping point where women no longer feel isolated or lonely. We want to make it “normal” for women to choose engineering.

7 years ago

U.S. Senator Bob Casey visited students at Cheltenham High School, March 2, 2018.
K-12
Pennsylvania
Public Safety

Anxious students question Sen. Casey at Cheltenham town hall on guns

"All I can say to you is keep going, keep fighting, keep marching, keep mobilizing," U.S. Sen. Bob Casey tells high-schoolers calling for changes in gun law.

7 years ago

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